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1. Video Library | Set Up • http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=12223132&ac=now “Breathe” by Frozen Light | 4:51 min. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImTEB35new0&feature=player_embedded#! | “Meditation on the Five Elements | 10:25 min. OPTIONAL Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

2. Pre-session Video http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=12223132&ac=now “Breathe” by Frozen Light | 4:51 min. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

3. Quintessential TibetanBuddha Dharma Teachings of the Buddha Part III | Vajrayana Session Six

4. Bodhichitta Bodhichitta, precious and sublime: May it arise in those in whom it has not arisen, May it never decline where it has arisen But go on increasing, further and further! Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

5. Self-generated Meditation Session Seven | Quintessential Buddha Dharma Look inward to observe the nature of mind Observe its origin Observe its going Observe its staying Carefully trace its own form and figure Inquire about the nature of mind, over and over again. Examine all thoughts—are they positive? are they negative?

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7. The Mind’s Natural ClarityWhen we recognize and become grounded in awareness, the ‘wind’ of emotion may still blow. But, instead of being carried away by the wind, we turn our attention inward, watching the shifts and changes with the intention of becoming familiar with that aspect of consciousness that recognizes, OH, THIS IS WHAT I’M FEELING, THIS IS WHAT I’M THINKING. As we do so a bit of space opens up within us. With practice, that space—which is the mind’s natural clarity—begins to expand and settle. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

8. TrisongDeutsen Emperor of Tibet (755 to~804 C.E.) 2nd of the three great Dharma Kings of Tibet, playing a pivotal role in introducing the tantric and Dzogchen teachings and the establishment of the Nyingma School Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

9. According to the Fifth Dalai Lama, Padmasambhava performed the Vajrakilaya Dance, using a rite of “thread cross” (NAMKHA) to assistant King TrisongDeutsenand Shantarakshita to clear obstructions and hindrances in the building of the Samye Monastery. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

10. God’s Eye or Ojo de Dios of the Huichol people in western central Mexico Photo: Quemado Mountain San Luis Potosi, Mexico Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

11. PadmasambhavaGuru Rinpoche Master PadmaPadmakara http://www.turtlehill.org/khen/eman.html Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

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13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQPmnGTUHYU Gnosis, The Spirit of Tibet – A Journey to Enlightenment 46:09 min. The Life of His Holiness DilgoKhyentseRinpocheThis film is an authentic portrait of DilgoKhyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's great contemporary teachers, considered to be a "Master of Masters" among the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Narrated by Richard Gere and music by Phillip Glass.Renowned as a great meditator, guru, poet, scholar and as one of the main teachers of the Dalai Lama, the Nyingma Lama DilgoKhyentse Rinpoche died in 1991. Ten years in the making, this film began in 1989 when translator MatthieuRicardand Vivian Kurz began taping extensive footage of their teacher. Shot in rarely filmed Kham, Eastern Tibet, as well as Nepal, Bhutan, India and France, the film shows the rich and intricate tapestry of Tibetan Buddhism and is a witness to the strength, wisdom, and depth of Tibetan culture. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

14. Avalokitesvara Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

15. The Fire Sermon “The mind is burning, ideas are burning, mind-consciousness is burning, mind contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful nor pleasant that arises with mind contact for its indispensable condition, that, too, is burning…” Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

16. “ The Buddha said the whole world was on fire. “Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion….. “…form is burning, feeling is burning, perception is burning, volitional formations are burning, consciousness is burning. Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple experiences revulsion towards form ... feeling ... perception ... volitional formations ... consciousness .... Through dispassion [this mind] is liberated....’ From his Fire Sermon— ” Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

17. “ 'in the heat of passion’; 'a burning desire'; 'she has a new flame.’ This is the fire of creation. It’s not just my sacred energy I need to be in touch with and aware of, it is the fire of all creation from moment to moment to moment. —Nancy Baker ” Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

18. “ Don’t project space as being there; don’t grasp awareness as being here! This is because space and awareness are a primordial unity. TulkuUrgyen Rinpoche ” Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

19. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.~ Albert Einstein Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

20. In the State of Innate Consciousness At ALL TIMES! Altered States: Intentional, recreational, religious An ASC can sometimes be reached intentionally by the use of sensory or sleep deprivation, an isolation tank, lucid dreaming, hypnosis, meditative prayer, psychoactive drugs, or disciplines (e.g. Mantra Meditation, Yoga, Sufism, Dream Yoga, SuratShabda Yoga (Kundalini)). Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

21. Accidental/Pathological An altered state of consciousness can come about accidentally through, for example,  fever, infections such as meningitis, sleep deprivation, fasting, oxygen deprivation, nitrogen narcosis (deep diving) , psychosis, temporal lobe epilepsy, or a traumatic accident. It can also occur in healthy women experiencing childbirth, hence the introduction of the term gender-specific states of consciousness. It also can occur when you are about to slip and fall down, go into another car, lose control of your balance, and the like. There is that moment of “pure awareness”. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

22. Drawing from Your Experience Can you recall an instance when you had an unexpected response…when, for example– time stood still, colors were suddenly brighter, there were instant, bright lights, and/or an extraordinary sense of calm and quiet in this void? If you have had such an instance, you have had a glimpse to the nature of your mind. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

23. Mental (Thought) Experiments… Einstein's theories sprang from a ground of ideas prepared by decades of experiments done by others…. This is definitely true of the Buddha and of all who have experienced the nature of mind. "In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light—only those who have experienced it can understand it.”—Einstein The equation E = mc2 states that energy always exhibits relativistic mass in whatever form the energy takes. The Buddha said “emptiness is form, form is emptiness.” Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

24. —only those who have experienced it can understand it…. • Mind is like a crystal. Just as a crystal adopts the color of whatever surface you place it on, the mind will become just whatever we allow to occupy it.—SogyalRinpoche • Mind is like a mirror. Just like a mirror reflects whatever is before it, mind can only give you a shadow experience: Never the real, never the original. And yet, when you perceive the mirror as pure, it is pure awareness…. When the deluded in a mirror look, they see a face, not a reflection. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

25. —only those who have experienced it can understand it…. • The mind is naturally radiant and pure.—Buddha • It is like a lake, and you can see the full moon in the lake reflected, but the reflection is not the real moon. And if you start thinking that the reflection is the real moon, you will never find the moon. • Can you identify it as presence? • Can you experience it as pure awareness? • Can you experience it as instant presence? Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

26. —only those who have experienced it can understand it…. The nature of mind cannot be defined in concrete terms. The great primordial, initial purity is just so. Not made by anyone, self-luminous, From the beginning, it is just itself. Persevere in your careful inquiry, examining the mind until you reach a positive conclusion that it is empty, pure and utterly inexpressible, that it is anon-entity and free of birth and death, coming and going. No matter what system of mind-training you practice, unless you realize the nature of yourmind, severing its root, you miss the point of the Great Completion. —From The Flight of the Garuda Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

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28. Siddhi Skills Perfected/Accomplishments • anima: decreasing one's size at will • antardhana: making oneself invisible • kamarupitva: assuming forms at will • kamavasaita: power to control one's passion • khecara: the power to fly • kramana: the power to enter another person's body (i.e. possession) • laghiman: the power to cancel out gravity (i.e. levitation) • mahima: increasing one's size at will • mohana: rendering a person unconscious • manojavitva: achieving high speed • padalepa: to move about anywhere, unnoticed • prapti: the power of obtaining everything • prakamya: irresistible willpower • stambhana: causing temporary paralysis in someone • vasitva: control over others • vikaranadharmitva: infinite mental powers Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

29. Tantra and Tantric Practices Methods/Tools The Swastika (“It is Well”), an Ancient Symbol about the Universe and the Law of Polarity | the full spectrum of possibility ranging from the extremely light to the extremely dark and any number of points in between  Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

30. “ The mind, though free from arising and ceasing, manifests in various ways so that the Nirmanakaya (mind’s awareness and clarity) is the unceasing appearances of the expressive power of mind. —DzogchenPonlop Rinpoche ” Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

31. http://www.berzinarchives.com/ The Kalachakra (“time-cycles”) Mantra, Deities, and Mandala for World Peace Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

32. The Tantric Vehicles • KriyaTantra—emphasizes external, ritual behavior • CharyaTantra—includes the above and special internal practice • Yoga Tantra— more emphasis on internal practices with a lot of mudras (hand gestures) and complex mandalas • MahayogaTantra— Generation stage and complete state, working with imagination to do visualizations of ourselves as Buddha figures and imagine nonconceptual cognition of voidness and a blissful mind, including rigpa practices. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

33. The Tantric Vehicles • MahayogaTantra— Generation stage and complete state, working with imagination to do visualizations of ourselves as Buddha figures and imagine nonconceptual cognition of voidness and a blissful mind, including rigpa practices • AnuyogaTantra— Specific tsalung practices (opening the chakras) with the channels and winds, including rigpa practices. • AtiyogaTantra— • Being in the actual rigpastate • Embodied within AtiyogaTantra is the Dzogchen practices of instant presence Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

34. Does Buddhism Have Deities? Yes, onlytwo— • Yin/Yang (female/male) • Yab/Yum (father/mother) • Creative Energy • Union of the 2 Poles • Elohim(male/female God in One) • UnioMystica • Logos/Eros • Reason/Emotion • Nature/Spirit • Animus/Anima • WE, The Cosmic Secret • The female bell/the male vajra (photo) Are they worshipped? No. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

35. Text of Kalachakra Tantra Five chapters— • Ground Kalachakra deals with the physical world, the birth and death of universes, our solar system, and the workings of the elements. • Inner Kalachakra deals with the human body and experience in terms of channels, winds, drops, chakras, etc. • The last three chapters deal with Alternative Kalachakra on the Path of Fruition—explanation of meditation practices, the practices themselves on the mandala and its deities, and the six fruition stages of yoga on attainment of siddhi and enlightenment. • Includes Astrology—"as it is outside (the cosmos), so it is within the body,” acknowledging profound interdependency. Deities hold symbols against the ultimate root of evil— the self-cherishing conceptual identity that gives rise to the five poisons of ignorance, desire, hatred, pride, and jealousy. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

36. Kalachakra (Cycle of Time) A teaching from Buddha Shakyamuni, showing the interrelation of the phenomenal world, the physical body, and the mind. Compiled between the parinirvana of Buddha Shakyamuni and the beginning of the 10th century C.E., spanning the vast areas of Afghanistan, northwestern Pakistan (Sodiyana), the Punjab, Swat, and Kashmir.

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39. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBsVcxFIARQ&feature=relmfuFYI Kalachakra Ritual Dance Namgyal Monastery monks perform the Kalachakra Ritual Dance during His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Kalachakra for World Peace in Bodh Gaya, India, on January 7, 2011, before a crowd of almost 200,000. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

40. Maňjuśhríis the embodiment of all the Buddha’s wisdom. The name can mean “Beautiful Glory.” Manjushriis regarded as the crown prince of Buddhist teachings. With his right hand, Manjushriholds a double-edged flaming sword that represents the sharpness of wisdom that cuts through illusion and duality. In his left hand, he holds a lotus flower on which rests the Prajnaparamita (Great Wisdom) that symbolizes transcendent wisdom as pure as lotus to tame the mind. Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

41. MaňjuśhríMantra oṃ a ra pa tsanadhīḥ (Tibetanༀ་ཨ་ར་པ་ཙ་ན་དྷཱི༔) The seed sound is dhīḥ

42. Mantras Not all mantras are associated with deities. For example— • Sabbesattadukkhamuccantu(may all beings be free from suffering) • Om gate gateparagateparasamgatebodhisvaha(Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond, Enlightnment, hail.) Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

43. http://buddhabookclub.weebly.com/medicine-buddha.htmlFYI Tayata, Om, Bekandzeh, bekandzehMaha-bekandzeh, RadzasamungatehSoha (Tibetan) TAYATA OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNIYE SOHA (Sanskrit) Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

44. Avalokitesvara Om Mani Padme Hum Mahabodhisattva, the Buddha in his compassion aspect Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

45. Meditation Mantra / Mudra on the Five Elements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImTEB35new0&feature=player_embedded#! | 10:25 min. OPTIONAL Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

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47. MūlaYogas – Foundation Practices Four Essential Practices— • Refuge & Prostration • Development of Bodhicitta • Meditation of Vajrasattva • Offering the Mandala 3-D representation of the 37-point Mandala Offering Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

48. I. Taking Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, & Sangha Kagyu Refuge Tree Nyingma Refuge Tree Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

49. II. Bodhichitta | Regarding All Sentient Beings as One’s Own Parents Session Six | Quintessential Tibetan Buddha Dharma

50. II. Bodhichitta Bodhicitta & Detachment as practices are of utmost importance. Without it, one’s practice can become perverse, destructive, pathological, criminal. Dialectic debate,another cornerstone practice; without it, there is no proving the opponent's argument is incorrect. If you disagree, death. Case in point: ReichfuhrerSS Heinrich Himmler, an amateur anthropologist and architect of the death camps, was an avid reader of the Bhaghavad Gita, a spiritual text disguised as an epic of a “Aryan” warriors, to justify enshrining war and warriors . He told his personal masseur Felix Kersten that he always carried with him a copy of the Bhagavad Gita because it relieved him of guilt about his final solution to exterminate the non-Germans. He felt that, like the warrior Arjuna, he was simply doing his duty without attachment to his actions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zGcA8q4hX_0#! “Nazi—The Occult Conspiracy” / Full | FYI